'Singapore began the 20th century as one of the hubs of Asian communism, and in the decades after the Second World War, all the century’s ideologies made an appearance there.'

Friends in Berkeley had racoons that took berries from a neighbour's tree and stomped them into the garden furniture

Chaos merchants

Dinner with the FT: Sir Tom Stoppard

'...writing in any language is a kind of collusion between sound and sense...when you’re writing, without even thinking about it, you’re pulling into service innumerable allusions to life as it is understood by your audience, a kind of cultural context…”

I did not! it looks brilliant. The only other of his I have seen is 'The Invention of Love'. I only got a fraction of the but it is quite something

Huge opportunity for front crawl pb

don't fear, I ran this by a terrifyingly senior civil servant given the price tag

i'll take a used copy